Woman who found Anne Frank's diary dies

The woman who saved the diary of Anne Frank has died in a nursing home in the Netherlands at the age of 100.

Miep Gies found the Amsterdam schoolgirl's diary after the Nazis arrested the Frank family in Amsterdam in 1944.

She was the last survivor of a group of people who were employed by Anne Frank's father Otto and helped feed and protect the eight people hiding in the secret attics above his business.

After the occupants of the secret attics were denounced and deported, Ms Gies gathered Anne Frank's papers and books.

She said she stored them in her desk in order to give them back to Anne at the end of the war.

Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, seven months after her arrest, but her diaries have been widely read for their record of a Jewish family's life under Nazi occupation.